It’s Go Time! … NHL awards show edition

The show is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Versus, er, OLN, er, NBCSports. Live from Vegas, the money grab of all money grabs … unless somebody in the NHL marketing department thinks there’s an Original Six team out there somewhere.

Whyzerman?

Well, at least they didn’t hire Drake this time, because he and his posse might be in a little hot water after that NYC rapper brawl the other night. Nice choice, there, NHL. And they did manage to round up a pretty crappy band in Nickelback and a whole boatload of B- and C-list celebs.

A player team owner Eugene Melnyk thinks will “go down in history as one of the great defencemen of all time”, which sounds more promising than the way the last Senators defenceman to score 17 or more goals in a season ended up “going down” and became “history”.”

Gary Bettman is a dope. This league just reported revenue of 3.3 billion dollars. Up over 50% over the year before the strike. And now the owners are going to ask the players for more money because they ………….oh, that’s right, they are not doing well? Good luck on that. Let me know how that works out for you when you have to deal with Donald Fehr.

Why would Prust want to leave here? This stop on the train made him worth a nice, new contract – and he’s gonna get paid. Who did we get him from – Calgary? What was he doing there? Do you think he wants to go back to Ice Station Zebra?

Yeah, I picked up on that too, Manny – and I think Liotta was making a political statement with his comments about the US president’s job being analagous to a Vezina Trophy candidate…it just didn’t “fit” the venue at all..

Jimbo, I get what the NHL was ‘trying’ to do. THey wanted to seem current, hip, with it.

Unfortunately, it was not, stale, and poorly executed. It missed the mark and was amateurish. Well, hopefully they learn from this and get better next year.

And, if you’re Shanny, do you like the publicity? Or are you inflamed by the portrayal? I say the latter if it’s me. In a sense those poor shots at humor were embarrassing to the sport and what he is trying to do. Then again, he’s been pitiful most of the season, too.

Matty, when the camera panned to Shanny in the audience, you could see on his face that he was *not* impressed with the horrible attempts at “comedy”…

*I* would be inflamed at the portrayal – but maybe he’s just taking the money and running.

The show is better off not being aired if it is going to make a laughing-stock of the league and its product. The sport is great, but the people that are the stewards of it have handed its image over to aasen-holes of the worst kind!

Did anyone notice that most of the award-winners didn’t thank their fans? So is Del Zotto gonna be pissed that Hank didn’t thank him after his tweet from that oh-so-amusing Twitter bit they did? Wow, why did they even bother reading Twitter on the air? It’s like the computer reading out print for blind people. I think my favorite part was when Peter Bishop/Charlie Conway/Dawson Creeker/Joshua Jackson actually apologized for the joke he was about to read because he, like everyone watching the show, knew the writing was horrible. Then he distanced himself from the joke even more by saying “I don’t write this stuff.” That was classic. Imagine how awesome it would have been if everyone on the show that had to read a horrible joke off the teleprompter did that? That would’ve been a good show. hehe